Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Asteroid to miss Earth by less than 20,000 miles next month

Asteroid to miss Earth by less than 20,000 miles next month: "Asteroid 2012 DA14 is about 40 meters (131 ft) in size, has a mass of 130,000 tons, is traveling relative to the Earth at a speed of some 6.3 km/s (14,100 mph) ... and will miss us by less than 32,000 km (20,000 miles) on February 15. If it did hit the Earth, the result would be a huge explosion yielding about 2.5 megatons,"

'via Blog this'

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